Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—C

Clement

(St.). Patron saint of tanners, being himself a tanner. His symbol is a pot, because November the 23rd, St. Clement's Day, is the day on which the early Danes used to go about begging for ale.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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